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Wildfires in Cantabria

Cantabria, Spain: 183 fires with a page have entered 54 of its 103 municipalities since 2016, burning 48,215 hectares inside the region. The largest was Soba in February 2026, with 2,598 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
48,215ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.0%
5,333 km²
fires
183
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
54
of 103
Largest fire
2,598ha
Soba · February 2026
Inhabitants
581,670
82.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 15° · 45 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 15° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 50 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 49 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 20° · 44 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 71 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 63 % · 19 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Vega de Pas 776 inhabitants 7,930 ha · 91 %
  2. Soba 1,057 inhabitants 7,873 ha · 37 %
  3. Selaya 1,868 inhabitants 4,584 ha · 1.2×
  4. Cabuérniga 976 inhabitants 3,783 ha · 44 %
  5. Rionansa 1,022 inhabitants 2,916 ha · 25 %
  6. Arredondo 478 inhabitants 2,149 ha · 46 %
  7. San Roque de Riomiera 333 inhabitants 2,020 ha · 57 %
  8. Los Tojos 369 inhabitants 2,002 ha · 22 %
  9. Miera 397 inhabitants 1,893 ha · 55 %
  10. Ruesga 810 inhabitants 1,251 ha · 14 %
  11. Ruente 1,083 inhabitants 1,168 ha · 18 %
  12. Lamasón 237 inhabitants 976 ha · 14 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land85 %
  • Broadleaved forest11 %
  • Agricultural areas1.8 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland1.8 %
  • Coniferous forest0.9 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20263511,281 Soba 2,598 ha
2025103,839 Vega de Pas 1,745 ha
2024176,073 Soba 2,581 ha
2023285,537 Soba 519 ha
2022245,149 Soba 652 ha
2021338,226 Selaya 822 ha
202071,501 Vega de Pas 618 ha
2019204,992 Vega de Pas 904 ha
20184529 Selaya 178 ha
20174831 Vega de Pas 352 ha
20161257 Valderredible 257 ha

All fires in Cantabria · 183

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/El Instituto Nacional de Estadstica (National Institute of Statistics (INE) Data License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).